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• Ethiopia is Not a Prisoner of Geography. Eritrea is Not Its Property.

  As Ethiopia and Eritrea move dangerously close to another war, I am struck by how little scrutiny is given to the arguments used to justify Ethiopia’s claims over the Red Sea. We hear about a country imprisoned by geography, a nation of 130 million people deprived of its natural coastline, and the injustice of losing

• Syndicalism With Extra Everything: How to Cut Through the Legal Thicket

  Even though workers are usually referred to in labor law as the weaker party, they are far from helpless. When workers come together in unions, they create the capacity to organize industrial action and win collective bargaining. When this happens on a broad front, unions become the vehicle through which the working class moves toward

• Reddit’s Aggressive User Bans, Superficial Engagement, and Monetization at Any Cost

  In this article, I take a look at Marx’s distinction between “use-value” and “exchange-value” and apply it to one of the internet’s largest platforms: Reddit. More specifically, I argue that the pursuit of exchange-value under capitalism can undermine meaningful public dialogue of the kind envisioned by Jürgen Habermas. Although Reddit possesses many of the structural